Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.